Talk:dead sleep

Request for verification
Rfv-sense The first sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern. I would like this meaning verified. I hope that we can come up with a more plausible "ordinary" (SoP?) definition as well, because most usage has no hint of "biphasic sleep patters". DCDuring TALK 22:58, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * This seems to meet the CFI under the "appearance in a refereed academic journal" clause, assuming the American Historical Review is refereed: it was mentioned in an article there. I've added the cite. Better yet, there's a footnote mentioning uses in various historical texts. (If you don't have JSTOR access, you can use the version here.) Hopefully we can track some of those down — I'm not a big fan of the academic-journal loophole for mentions, at least when we don't need it. —Ruakh TALK 21:16, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

RFV passed. I've added to the entry; maybe someone will find and add a use or two. —Ruakh TALK 06:01, 10 March 2010 (UTC)